Vehicle-brake.



No. 666,965. Patentud m. 29, 19m.

. J. H. LEDNHARDT.

VEHICLE BRAKE.

(Application filed Dec. 14, 1899.)

(No M6661.)

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JOHN H. LEONHARDT, OF BALTIMORE, MARYLAND.

VEHICLE-BRAKE.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 666,965, dated January29, 1901.

Application filed December 14, 1899. Serial No. 740,247. (No model.)

To all whom it may concern;

Be it known that 1, JOHN H. LEONHARDT,

of the city of Baltimore (Waverly) and State of Maryland, have inventedcertain Improvements in Wheeled-Vehicle Brakes, of which the followingis a specification.

It is well known that in wheeled vehicles where the body thereof issupported by means of springs from the axles the body is liable to get apermanent set to one side, which brings the brake-shoe out of alinementwith the tire of the wheel to which the shoe is applied and only aportion of the shoe is then effective as the brake is used.

The object of the present invention is to provide cheap, simple, andefliective means of lateral adjustment of the brake-shoe with referenceto the brake-bar, as will hereinafter fully appear.

In the further description of the said invention which follows referenceis made to the accompanying drawings, forming a part hereof, and inwhich- Figure l is a side viewof a part of a wheel, the brake-shoe, anda portion of the brakebar constructed in accordance with the presentinvention. Fig. 2 is an end view of the same without the wheel. Fig. 3is a top view of Fig. 2.

Referring now to the drawings, A represents a part of the wheel to whichthe brake is applied, and B the brake-shoe, which is shown asconstructed of a wood block a, with a facing b of iron.

C is a clip formed of a single piece of plateiron, having two flanges c,which clamp the sides of the block, and two other flanges d, betweenwhich the end of the brake-bar is placed.

D is a bolt the head of which is sunk in the wood block of thebrake-shoe. The said bolt passes through the clip, which has a holetherein of practically the same size as the bolt, and also through aslot fin the end of the brake-bar. The nut g is screwed against a Washerh on the face of the brake-bar. \Vhen the vehicle is built, the shoe ismade to register with the tire of the wheel and the bolt D is in thecenter of the slot f, and should the body of the vehicle get a lateralset the nut g is slackened and the shoe moved laterally of the bar untilit again registers with the tire of the wheel. With the constructiondescribed the brake-bar has never to be lengthened or shortened orchanged in any manner, the adjustment being efiected by shifting theshoe in the manner specified.

I claim as my invention In combination with a brake-shoe having a fixedstanding bolt the head of which is embedded in the said shoe, and aslotted brakebar through which the said standing bolt passes, a clipinterposed between the said brake-shoe and the brake-bar which consistsof a plate having flanges which clamp the sides of the brake-shoe, andother flanges which clamp the upper and lower sides of the brake-bar,and a nut screwed upon the said standing bolt whereby the three membersof the brake mechanism are drawn together, substantially as specified.

JOHN H. LEONHARDT.

Witnesses:

WM. '1. HOWARD, G110. F. FAUST.

